Mahayana

It’s very strange how one experience or choice you make in your life can change the rest of your life that follows that event, would you then in turn change these decisions you made. Such as your what if your mom conceived you not on the knowing basis. What if everyone was telling her not to because she was to be a single mom and that’s not a world a child should be born into, but then what if she challenged this belief that she grew up with. This then in turn affected all her choices later in…

Chan Meditation initially grabbed my attention with the concept that the endurance of pain can be used as a tool for the development of concentration. I was first introduced to Chan meditation after participating in a short group meditation sit, held at a park in Downey and organized by the Lu mountain temple. The participants mainly discussed pain, and how concentrating on the discomfort can help relieve it. This experience left me with three major questions; what is Chan Buddhism? ; Why do…

Perhaps, some of the most Enlightened people would be widely considered to be unenlightened by everyone, excluding themselves. The topic of this paper is to raise the question if it would be more in line with Zen for humans to experience no emotion at all. Bringing out excerpts from the Zen readings, this essay will compare the two possibilities of it being ideal for humans to possess no emotions, or to possess low intensity emotion according to Chinese Buddhist philosophy. Zen might think it…

Stories of 24 pre-Gautama Buddhas. “All Buddhas, of the past, present, or future, bound to irrefutable Transcendent Wisdom, reach completely full understanding and the highest awakening” ( 84). One example of a different Buddha is Buddha Amidabha of Mahayana Buddhism. The ‘‘Pure Land’’ tradition of Buddhism teaches that a Buddha named Amidabha created and now rules over a ‘‘Buddha-land’’ called the Pure Land (…

all religions, and individuals have the freedom to practice whatever religion they choose, some religions require practices and rituals that may not be as effective in American culture. When all forms of Buddhism are considered, such as Theravada, Mahayana, including Chan/Zen and Pure Land, or Vajrayana, I think it would be more difficult to practice Theravada Buddhism in twenty-first America. Theraveda Buddhism thrives in tradition, so monasticism and the community that revolves around the…

religions. Some of those basic rules that they both share includes don't steal, don’t kill, be kind to your neighbor, etc. There are also theological divisions in both Judaism and Buddhism. For example, there are three main schools of Buddhism, Mahayana, Hinayana, and Vajrayana, and the beliefs vary slightly among the different branches. This is similar to Judaism because…

In the onset of the 16th century, separate rulers ruled the northern part of China. However, the southern remained under the dynasties. As a result, the non-Chinese rulers controlled the northern part. The Buddhists in southern China continued to translate the Buddhist texts into Chinese, and they wrote comments on various texts. The southern rulers were devoted Buddhists who ensured everything was constructed and done according to the religion. The rulers led to the expansion of the earlier…

In fact we can said that Buddhism is about compassion and teach compassion because since its earliest beginnings when Shakyamuni Buddha, who was born Prince Siddhartha and raised in a rich life; but left it all behind to discover the meaning of suffering and sadness to achieve the ultimate liberation. This demonstrated his comprehending side of nature, all manifested in an uniquely human quality such as readiness to give comfort, sympathy, concern and carrying. "According to Buddhism,…

The notion of an afterlife and what happens when one dies is an important idea in every religion, especially in both Judaism and Buddhism. Judaism and Buddhism have very differing ideas about what occurs once an individual dies, including not only what happens when someone dies, but how it happens as well. While Judaism 's chief beliefs focus on the resurrection of the physical body, Buddhism claims that the individual 's spirit continues to live on in various lives until achieving Nirvana. In…

those in China (in addition to stirring up a good deal of controversy) and Eastern Asia such as Japan. Buddhism’s spread over Asia has lead significantly to its various forms of practice and branches of practice. Such as mainly Hinayana and Mahayana. Mahayana has then itself become more a mainstream form of Buddhism; from there Buddhism has branched out even more. However, up until recently Buddhism’s spread has mostly been restricted to regions in Asia where residents are familiar with…